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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465633803321

Autore

Schultze-Berndt Eva F

Titolo

Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification [[electronic resource] ] : The Typology of Depictives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-153411-0

1-280-75243-2

1-4294-4012-0

0-19-920434-9

0-19-151402-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (475 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HimmelmannNikolaus P

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Electronic books. -- local

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adverbials

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase

Semantics

Typology (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase

Grammar, Comparative and general - Adverbials

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and chapter summaries; Acknowledgements; The contributors; Abbreviations and glossing conventions; 1 Issues in the syntax and semantics of participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction; 2 Depictives in English and Warlpiri; 3 Adverbials and depictives as restrictors; 4 Depictive agreement and the development of a depictive marker in Swiss German dialects; 5 Quantifying depictive secondary



predicates in Australian languages; 6 Depictives in Kartvelian; 7 On depictive secondary predicates in Laz; 8 Participant agreement in Panoan

9 Secondary predicates and adverbials in Nilotic and Omotic: a typological comparison10 Asyndetic subordination and deverbal depictive expressions in Shona; 11 Forms of secondary predication in serializing languages: on depictives in Ewe; 12 Depictive and other secondary predication in Lao; 13 A semantic map for depictive adjectivals; References; Index of languages; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y; Index of terms; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. - ;Depictive secondary predicates, such as 'raw' in 'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to appro